Improvement in binder for sewing-machine



W. M. STODDARD.

Binder for Sewing Machines.

Patent ed Nov. 3, 1868.

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dated November 3, 1868.

IMPROVEIENT IN BINDER FOR SEWING-MACEINE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may conce'm:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM M. STODDARD, of the city and county of San Francisco, in the State of California, have invented new and improved Binding- Attachment for Sewing-Machines; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in whicl1- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved device, showing, by the aid of red lines, the manner of 1 guiding and sewing binding upon the edge of a piece of cloth. a

Figure 2 is a top view of the device.

Figure 3 is an edge view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to a newand useful improvement on devices which are designed for turning or folding and guiding binding-material during the act ofsewing it upon cloth by sewing-machinery. It consists in a binder which will admit of being adjustedto suit the various widths of binding and thickness ofmaterial used, and which will hold and guide the binding byits edges while it is being stitched upon the edges of the material, as will be hereinafter explained.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand my invention, I will describe .its construction and operatiou. y

In the accompanying drawings, A representsa thin with its free ends turned inward, so as to form hooked guides a a, for receiving and guiding the edges of binding-material, as indicated by red lines in the drawings. The lower limb or portion of the U-shaped plate has a lateral extension upon one side of it, through which an oblong slot is made for receivin'ga clamp-screw,-which is tapped into the cloth-plate of a sewing-machine, for confining the device in place thereon. The edge of said extension is turned up at 0, so as to form a flange or guide for guiding and keeping in place a slide, B.

The slide B is out or stamped out of a piece of sheetmetal, and is inform of the letter L, so that it will lie flatly upon the base-portion of the plate above described, with one edge abutting against the upturned guideflange c. This slide B has one edge turned up, so as to form a guide, b, for the binding, as this latter is fed beneath the needle of the sewing-machine. The guide I) is cut out, as shown in the drawings, to receive and keep in place laterally the upper limb or portion of the hooked guide, the hooked end of which extends beyond said guide I), as shown. The slide B is also constructed with an oblong slot, d, through it, which slot is made so as to be directly over the corresponding slot through the bed-piece. By having two ofi'sets, f, upon the bot tom of the slide B, arranged so as to abut against the edges of the extended and hooked base-portion of plate A, they will serve, in conjunction with the fiangee, as guides to the plate B, for keeping the binding-guide b at right angles to the length of the hooked-spring guides.

By means ofa single clamp-screw passed through the twooblong slots d into the cloth-bed of a sewing-machine, the two pieces constituting my improved binder can be secured down firmly upon the cloth-plate, and held in any desired position thereon for operation; and by loosening said screw, the two pieces A B can be adjusted for any desired width of binding.

Red lines indicate the binding of cloth, and show plainly the manner of holdiugand guiding the binding in the act of feeding it beneath the needle. It willbe seen that the upper portion of the U-shaped hooked guide will, on account of its 'spiinging action, adjust itselfto the thickness of the cloth passed beneath it, and hold the upper edge of the binding down closely upon the cloth.

It will also be seen that my improved binder is composed of but two pieces, A B, struck out of sheet-metal, and bent into such shape as will afford the proper guides for the work, and allow of such guides being adjusted for binding of different widths.

Having described my invention,

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The two pieces, A B, sha ed, bent, and otherwise constructed and arranged, substantially in the manner and for the purposes described.

Witness my hand, in the matter of my application for a patent on animprovemcnt in braid-binding guides for sewing-machines, this 2d day of July, 1868.

WM. M. STODDARD.

Witnesses:

WM. '1. Forms, HENRY Hlueu'r. 

